Possessive Adjectives
Descubre cómo funcionan los adjetivos posesivos en español: concordancia de género y número, colocación y ejemplos prácticos para usar correctamente los posesivos en oraciones diarias.
Discover how possessive adjectives work in Spanish: gender and number agreement, placement, and practical examples to use possessives correctly in sentences.
Possessive adjectives show who owns or is connected to something, and they agree in gender and number with the noun they modify.
Usage
Use a possessive adjective before a noun to show ownership or relationship, and make sure it matches the noun in gender and number.
Vocabulary
| English Word(s) | English Translation(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| my | my | |
| your (fam.) | your (fam.) | |
| his | his | |
| her | her | |
| our | our | |
| their | their |
Examples
Summary
Possessive adjectives must agree with the noun they modify, not with the owner, and they appear before the noun.
Suggested Reading
English File by Unknown (Oxford University Press series)
Practical English Usage by Michael Swan
English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy
English Grammar Workbook: Simple Grammar for Non-Native Speakers by SIMPLE English Language School
Essential Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy
New Concept English by L. G. Alexander
Oxford Practice Grammar by Norman Coe, Mark Harrison & Ken Paterson
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane Straus
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